Course Summary

Health Care Assistants (HCAs) wishing to give influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations must now study practice and theory before their workplace supervision and competency assessment. This 2-day course covers the practice and theory section.

Who Should Attend?

• Health Care Assistants

Aims/Objectives

• Be aware of the background and context of the Influenza and Pneumococcal immunisation programmes.
• Have an understanding of how immunity works and different types of vaccines.
• Review relevant viral signs and symptoms
• Have a better understanding of the legal, professional and clinical governance framework in which you will be administering these immunisations.
• Discuss safe storage and handling of the vaccines.
• Be aware of patient identification and safe pre-admission health screening process.
• Be able to demonstrate safe vaccine administration.
• Review accurate recording and patient information systems.
• Describe adverse reactions and cope in these situations.

Course Programme

• Influenza immunisation history and background
• Epidemiology
• Aims of immunisation; the national policy and schedules
• The immune system and how vaccines work
• Symptoms of the virus
• Legal and accountability aspects
• Storage and handling
• Vaccine types and composition
• Prescription requirements
• Delegation responsibilities
• Patient identification, pre-admission health screening and consent (includes concurrent medical conditions in which vaccination is recommended and contraindicated)
• Competencies in the workplace
• Immunisation administration
• Health and safety
• Choice of sites
• Equipment
• Hands-on practice
• Documentation, record keeping and reporting
• Adverse reactions, recognition and treatment

Led By

• TBA

Important Notes

• PDUK provides a certificate of attendance for the theoretical components of this training. The course includes an immunisation skills competency guide to be used in the workplace. This is to be completed by the HCA and signed off by their mentor. Assessment of competence to administer vaccines is done by the mentor.
• Ref: National Minimum Standards for Immunisation Training, HPA, June 2005

Cost

Course Duration	Course CPD	Full Price (incl VAT) per person
2.0 Day(s)	16.0 Hour(s)	£210.00

Discounts

Dates	Block Size	Block Discount	Individual Discount
16 Sep 2010 to 17 Sep 2010	n/a	n/a	10.00%

Dates/Venues

Location - Venue	Dates	No. of People
London - St Thomas' Hospital	16 Sep 2010 to 17 Sep 2010

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